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Issues.

Every issue of Compute!, free to read. Sourced. Illustrated. Four issues so far; the next lands in mid-July.

  1. Issue №4 cover — a judge's gavel striking down in a burst of light.
    №4 · 30 June 2026 · The Litigation Special

    Trial & Error.

    The whole AI industry will see you in court. Congress is still clearing its throat; the courts already wrote the rules, one lawsuit at a time. Three waves — what the machines read, who they reject, who they hurt — plus a pull-out corkboard of who's suing who.

    • Exhibit A: The chats you deleted aren't gone. 20 million ChatGPT logs, headed to the lawyers.
    • The Money: The running tab — north of $12.5 billion. It started at $650.88.
    • The Verdict: Is a chatbot a product? A court may decide.
    • The Service: Who's Suing Who — the pull-out string map.
    Read Issue №4 →
  2. №3
    S-1,
    S-1,
    S-1.
    The IPO Special
    №3 · 16 June 2026 · The IPO Special

    S-1, S-1, S-1.

    Three frontier laboratories filed S-1s with the SEC in the forty days between 1 May and 8 June. The combined private-market valuation, at print, was $2.84 trillion. The bankers, in all three cases, were mostly the same five firms.

    • The Lede: SpaceX. Roadshow. $135 fixed, $1.77tn. Musk keeps 82%+ of the vote.
    • The Money: Anthropic, $965bn post → $1tn float. S-1 confidential, 1 June.
    • The Joke: OpenAI, on timing: "We have not decided on timing yet."
    • The Service: The Web, Vol. 3 — in dollars.
    Read Issue №3 →
  3. Issue №2 cover — Andrej Karpathy mid-leap between OpenAI, Tesla, and Anthropic logos.
    №2 · 2 June 2026 · Musical Chairs

    He's Back. (Again.)

    The boomerang autodidact joins Anthropic — his fifth lab in eleven years. Schulman lands at his third lab. Meta reportedly offers $1.5bn. The corkboard, on its own report, is running out of room.

    • The Lede: Karpathy to Anthropic. Stop №5.
    • The Money: Shazeer back to Google for $2.7bn.
    • The Joke: Zoph: out and back at OpenAI the same day.
    • The Service: The Web, Vol. 2 — twelve portraits, every move on the record.
    Read Issue №2 →
  4. Issue №1 cover — Musk v Altman.
    №1 · 19 May 2026 · Musk v Altman

    "Stories, not facts." (OpenAI wins.)

    Three weeks. Nine witnesses. $134 billion on the table. A jury that deliberated under two hours. Inside Musk v Altman.

    • The Lede: The verdict, with red string.
    • The Money: Eleven years of grudges, eleven players pinned.
    • The Joke: Mr. Brockman, on the witness stand.
    • The Service: The Web, Vol. 1 — the inaugural pull-out.
    Read Issue №1 →

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